It was 1993. You were there. sweating in a mid-atlantic warehouse, it was dark, crowded, throbbing, and new. The internet was just starting up. DJs were mysterious; the tracks they played invoked euphoria. You danced near the subs so you could embody every bass hit.

It is 2024. You are here. Whether you were there or not for the decades before, rave transcends, evolves, thrives. 

Our prompt for this mix series is simple: we ask DJs for their unique interpretation of early rave based on memory or fantasy.

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Queen Plz is a scientist, a feminist, and a dirty south enthusiast born and raised in Atlanta and currently based in Durham NC. Her continually evolving musical palette and her drive to create space for diversity in the electronic music underground led her to found seminal Durham monthly Party Illegal in 2013. Her art is inseparable from her politics, and her DJ sets will take you on a meandering journey from the rapid fire of the New York ballroom scene to the slow southern drawl of UGK. She is fascinated by rhythmic complexity and the moments of accidental brilliance that arise from exploratory play. Queen Plz has been djing for almost a decade, and has opened for Jubilee, Le1f, Mykki Blanco, TT the Artist, Mighty Mark, Uniiqu3, and a host of other brilliant local artists.

Her mixtape "First Amendment Area" is a winner of the "Bull City in The Mix" local mixtape competition.

Music from the lost ruined land, built on top of ancient technology, where anything is possible.

If you would like to communicate with me, my email is: orokos.storm@gmail.com

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